Claudia Hinz lives in Bend, Oregon. She graduated from Harvard and received her MA in English from Southern Methodist University. She worked as a television reporter for network affiliates in Northern California, Seattle and Dallas. Her work has been published in Women Writers, Women’s Books, Story Magazine, Other People’s Flowers, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, The Manifest-Station, Brevity, The Boston Globe, 1859 Oregon’s Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bend Lifestyle Magazine and BLUNTmoms.